No-Fuss Instagram Photo Backup With Grambacker for iPhone

More than several 'side-eyes' have been thrown at Facebook, I mean...Instagram for recently for disabling the ability to view photos in the Twitter stream, and changing its Terms Of Service in favor of what most thought was an attempt to monetize user's photos. As a result, some Instagram users got "all up in their feelings" and have made plans to ditch the uber-popular photo-sharing app. For those planning on deleting their accounts, or looking for a simple way to backup their photos for safe keeping, the Grambacker app for iPhone is a no-fuss way to backup Instagram photos to Dropbox.

Setting up the backup process is real simple. There are no additional options outside of connecting the app to your Dropbox account and/or opting to backup to your camera roll as well. Once you connect your accounts and start the backup process, the app creates a folder in your Dropbox account and pushes all the photos to that location. I'm a little anal, so I would have preferred the option of choosing where I wanted to save the photos. I'm assuming the developer wanted to keep the process as simple as possible.

While I was testing the service out, the backup process did get hung up several times and I had to start the process over. Not sure what the issue was, but just to be on the safe side, it's probably a good idea to have a strong network connection when backing up photos.

On the flip side, the app did keep the photos from the previous attempt, and it didn't create any duplicates. Speaking of which, when the app creates the filenames for the photos, a date/time-stamp is included so I could see exactly when I took the photos (Not surprising, my first Instagram photo is of a bowl of cereal) - That's a feature I would like to see implemented in the actual Instagram app.

I'm not sure If I'm going to join the "great migration" from Instagram, but it's nice to know that for $0.99 I can quickly and easily backup my Instagram photos.

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